Tomiyama Hirofumi, Murayama Keitaro, Nemoto Kiyotaka, Hasuzawa Suguru, Mizobe Taro, Kato Kenta, Matsuo Akira, Ohno Aikana, Kang Mingi, Togao Osamu, Hiwatashi Akio, Ishigami Kousei, Nakao Tomohiro
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan.
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Japan.
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2022 Jun 8;116:110516. doi: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2022.110516. Epub 2022 Jan 30.
Background It is gradually becoming clear that obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) patients have aberrant resting-state large-scale intrinsic networks of cingulo-opercular salience (SN), default mode (DMN), and front-parietal network (FPN). However, it remains unknown whether unaffected first-degree relatives of OCD patients have these alterations as a vulnerability marker to the disorder. Methods We performed resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) scans of 47 medication-free OCD patients, 21 unaffected healthy first-degree relatives of OCD patients, and 62 healthy control (HC) participants. We explored differences between the three groups in the functional connectivity from SN (seeds: anterior-insula (AI) and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC)), DMN (seeds: medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and posterior parietal cortex (PCC)), and FPN (seeds: dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC)). Results Compared to HC, both OCD patients and first-degree relatives showed significantly greater functional connectivity between AI and PCC and between DLPFC and the thalamus. Compared to first-degree relatives and HC, OCD patients showed reduced functional connectivity between PCC and DLPFC, and this altered functional connectivity was negatively correlated with anxiety and depressive symptom within OCD group. Conclusions OCD patients and unaffected first-degree relatives of OCD patients showed overlapping alterations in resting state functional connectivity between the regions of SN and DMN and between DLPFC and the thalamus. Our results suggested that alterations between large-scale intrinsic networks and within the dorsal cognitive cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical (CSTC) circuit could represent endophenotype markers of OCD.
背景 逐渐明确的是,强迫症(OCD)患者在静息状态下扣带回-脑岛突显网络(SN)、默认模式网络(DMN)和额顶叶网络(FPN)存在异常的大规模内在网络。然而,OCD患者未受影响的一级亲属是否存在这些改变作为该疾病的易感性标志物仍不清楚。方法 我们对47名未服药的OCD患者、21名OCD患者未受影响的健康一级亲属以及62名健康对照(HC)参与者进行了静息态功能磁共振成像(rsfMRI)扫描。我们探讨了三组在SN(种子区域:前岛叶(AI)和背侧前扣带回皮质(dACC))、DMN(种子区域:内侧前额叶皮质(MPFC)和顶叶后皮质(PCC))以及FPN(种子区域:背外侧前额叶皮质(DLPFC))功能连接上的差异。结果 与HC相比,OCD患者和一级亲属在AI与PCC之间以及DLPFC与丘脑之间均表现出显著更强的功能连接。与一级亲属和HC相比,OCD患者在PCC与DLPFC之间的功能连接降低,且这种改变的功能连接与OCD组内的焦虑和抑郁症状呈负相关。结论 OCD患者及其未受影响的一级亲属在SN和DMN区域之间以及DLPFC与丘脑之间的静息态功能连接上表现出重叠的改变。我们的结果表明,大规模内在网络之间以及背侧认知皮质-纹状体-丘脑-皮质(CSTC)回路内的改变可能代表OCD的内表型标志物。